We’ve been working with Apple for quite a while to make this happen and its great to finally be able to share it with the world. The love for Ruby has definitely spread inside Apple and we’ve been thrilled to see the level of interest they’ve taken to get OS X to be a premiere development and deployment platform for Rails… It’s been no secret that Apple is held in very high regard by the Rails community. Every single Rails Core contributer is running on Apple and the vast majority of Rails developers are too. To see Apple acknowledge this and return the favor is very rewarding… Thanks so much to Ernest Prabhakar, Jordan Hubbard, and Dave Morin for making this happen.

MikeInAZ
08 Aug 06

Chad, thanks for fighting injustice in the world and keeping us safe from imperceptible inconsistencies!

JF
08 Aug 06

Chad, I know it hurts you to hear me say this but I don’t have the time or the motivation to scour the web on a daily quest to point out every exaggeration, half-truth, stretch, manipulation, lie, or otherwise potentially unsavory statement for you. You don’t seem to need my help with that anyway.

If I see something I think is worth pointing out on our blog I will. Most of the things we share on SvN are generally positive in nature, but once in a while something negative is worth a spotlight.

The BusinessWeek piece was worth pointing out. I wasn’t alone on that one either — hundreds of blog posts have been logged on it. So far the vast majority agree that it was a bullshit headline coming from a well-respected national business magazine. This wasn’t the Utne Reader talking about $, it was BusinessWeek. Anyhow, this topic has been analyzed to death so let’s put it to sleep.

Frankly I don’t know enough about computer chips or care enough about computer chips to even weigh in on the Apple quad thing. It’s out of my league. I’m sure those on both sides who know more about it than I do will have a field day though.

Jack Shedd
08 Aug 06

Chad, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with Apple calling it a quad. You’re just picking a fight and haggling semantics.

Sam
08 Aug 06

this is pretty cool guys, nice win

Lode
08 Aug 06

Chad: The Quad Xeon is just as Quad as the Quad G5 used to be: two processor dies/sockets, each with 2 cores.

Not every 4-way you see out there has 4 physical cpus, and the number of multi-core cpus will only rise.

STe
08 Aug 06

Apple have noticed a trend in the majority of Rails developers using Macs. Apple have seen an opportunity to exploit the developer community springing up around Rails and they are taking it. The decision is based on selling Macs rather then promoting Rails. However, by Apple pushing Rails, I canít see it reaching anyone but developers - who already own Macs. Or most of them do. Your typical user isnít going to use Rails. Currently, I donít see how this will help Rails, apart from having it bundled as an extra. It will be useful for developers, but just another application to your average Joe. It does give Rails exposure, but only to those who want to see it. Can anyone fill me in on how this helps Rails?

Kenny
08 Aug 06

Pretty damn good for apple, 37sm rails and developers.

Bravo.

Magirus
08 Aug 06

Congratulation to the Rails Team. You deserve this!
It may not have much impact in terms of user count, but i feel it’s like a “Ritterschlag” from Apple to you
(Ritterschlag is german, I don’t know the proper term in english. It’s the ceremony where the queen/king tips on the shoulder of a new knight to make him feel how heavy that sword is…;-) )

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